Approaches to Criticism

1. Which of These is a Text by Marx and Engels?

A) Das Kapitalism
B) The Pursuit of Happiness
C) The German Ideology
D) The Consumerist Manifesto
E) Monkey Business

2. Fill in the blank: "Ideology represents the ______________of individuals to their real conditions of existence"

A) Imaginary Relation
B) Material Connection
C) Economic Relation
D) Response
E) Responsibility

3. Which of these is regarded as a Formalist Critic?

A) Peter Gabriel
B) Titi Camara
C) bell hooks
D) Norman Greenbaum
E) Cleanth Brooks

4. In Althusser’s account of interpellation in ‘Ideology and The ideological State apparatuses’, who ‘hails’ the subject in Althusser’s example?

A) A zookeeper
B) His Mother
C) A policeman
D) A priest
E) Another driver

5. With which famous term does Derrida convey the process and instability of meaning?

A) Dilletanté
B) Divérgence
C) Déviance
D) Différance
E) Defféral

6. With which Other Existentialist Philosopher is Simone de Beauvoir Most closely associated?

A) Martin Heidegger
B) Roland Barthes
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Søren Kierkegaard
E) Maurice Merleau-Ponty

7. The way in which a particular society comes to know and to order the world, Foucault argues, is bound up with the way in which power is exercised within that society. What term captures this idea?

A) Pantopticon
B) Instagram
C) Ideological State Apparatus
D) Discourse
E) Deception

8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?

A) Ginger Beer
B) Double Trouble
C) The Drag Act
D) Gender Trouble
E) Gender Bender

9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?

A) Martin Heidegger
B) Michael Bublé
C) Fredrich Nietzsche
D) G W F Hegel
E) Ludwig von Feuerbach

10. From which text is this a quotation: “Man’s dream is the face of death. Which always threatens him differently than it threatens woman.”

A) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)
B) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
C) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
D) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
E) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)

11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?

A) Gram-shi
B) Gram-ski
C) Gram-ki
D) Gran-chi
E) Glam-si

12. Which of these is a definition of ‘Hegemony’

A) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
B) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
C) The means of production understood in terms of their ownership
D) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
E) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class

13. Who said: “If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.”

A) Emma Watson
B) Roland Barthes
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Judith Butler
E) Jacques Derrida

14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…

A) Semiotics
B) Post-Structualisam
C) Structuralism
D) Semiology
E) Sociology

15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?

A) Orientalism
B) The British Dream
C) Individualism
D) Pokémon
E) Drag

16. What is the name of ideal prison, designed by Jeremy Bentham, That Foucault uses to illustrate the development of the Carceral Society?

A) The Panopticon
B) The Network
C) The Oddessy
D) The Cyclops
E) The Pyramid

17. What term denotes an approach to political or social reform that emphasises many forms of identity at once?

A) International
B) Intervidual
C) Intersectional
D) Intestinal
E) Intentional

18. With which question does Foucault end his essay ‘What is an Author’?

A) What difference does it make what he is thinking?
B) Where is the speaker who is speaking?
C) Is it the reader who is speaking?
D) What difference does it make who is speaking?
E) Who has the right to be speaking?

19. What concept does Owen Jones make central to his account in 'Chavs'

A) stigmatisation
B) miseducation
C) cultural appropriation
D) media saturation
E) class war

20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'

A) Roses signifying passion
B) Wrestlers signifying strength
C) Flags signifying loyalty
D) Lions signifying ferocity
E) Fish signifying freedom

21. According to Nietzsche, "The intellect as a means of the preservation of the individual, develops its chief power in ________"

A) Love
B) Power
C) Error
D) Truth
E) Dissimulation

22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?

A) Tangerinery
B) Egalitarianism
C) Consequentialism
D) Popularism
E) Maoism

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